Top 561 Moderate Quotes & Sayings

Narcissism in moderate amounts is not harmful to health.

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

A moderate amount of stress - not too much, not too little - generally means you understand the problem and are psychologically stoked to solve it. Moderate stress yields the best, most optimum performance in a crisis.

Yesterday's moderate is today's terrorist.

I'm quite moderate.

I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican - there just aren't many of us left.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

I'm, in general, an advocate of moderate ticket prices.

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

I eat food I love in moderate portions and in a healthier way.

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

Hosts need to moderate in moderation.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

It's not that we have two different kinds of Islam. I acknowledge the fact that we have two kinds of people. There are moderate Muslims and non-moderate Muslims. But there is really only one Islam, and this is the Islam of the life of Muhammad, of the Quran, of the Hadiths, of the Sunnah.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the Assad government looks out at the landscape, sees the rise of ISIS, sees that much of the rebel force has become largely Islamist, and then turns to the West and says, well, you know, they look toward the West and say, well, look, what you have is a terrorist group that's fighting against us. So in this context, I think, to talk about moderate opposition being created to put pressure on Damascus is rather illusionary.

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

We represent the moderate teachings and principles of Islam.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

However, there are moderate and non-moderate Muslims, I acknowledge that.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it's in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

In success be moderate.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.